Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices Psychological Aspects of Biblical

This book’s aim is to enrich and deepen our psychological understanding of biblical concepts and personalities. Such understanding is relevant for theology as well as for psychology and psychiatry. It may help theologians to contextualize their discipline

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Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Personalities Edited by

Gerrit Glas University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Moshe Halevi Spero School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Weinstock Oncology Day Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Peter J. Verhagen Meerkanten GGZ Flevo-Veluwe, Ermelo, The Netherlands

Herman M. van Praag University of Maastricht, The Netherlands The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, U.S.A.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

978-1-4020-5938-4 (HB) 978-1-4020-5939-1 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

Printed on acid-free paper

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CONTENTS

Contributing Authors

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xvii

PART 1. HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1.

Introduction to Historical and Conceptual Issues Gerrit Glas

3

2.

Psychiatry and Religion: An Unconsummated Marriage Herman van Praag

9

3.

Biblical Narratives as History: Biblical Persons as Objects of Historical Faith C. Stephen Evans

21

PART 2. PROPHECY: THEOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS 4.

Introduction to Prophecy: Theological and Psychological Aspects Gerrit Glas

5.

The Dynamics of Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel Neil Gillman v

37

41

vi

CONTENTS

6.

The Prophets as Persons Bob Becking

53

7.

Jeremiah Interpreted: A Rabbinic Analysis of the Prophet Bryna Jocheved Levy

65

PART 3. MARTYRDOM: THEOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS 8.

Introduction to Martyrdom: Theological and Psychological Aspects Gerrit Glas

9.

Martyrdom: Theological and Psychological Aspects. Martyrdom in Judaism Hyam Maccoby, Z.L.†

10. The Martyrdom of Paul Jakob van Bruggen 11. Spiritual, Human, and Psychological Dimensions of St. Paul’s Martyrdom Msngr. H.W.M. Ta´jra´

89

93

105

115

PART 4. MESSIANISM: THEOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS 12. Introduction to Messianism: Theological and Psychological Aspects Gerrit Glas

127

13. Casting a Psychological Look on Jesus the Marginal Jew Antoine Vergote

133

14. The Land of Israel: Desire and Dread in Jewish Literature Aviezer Ravitzky

153

15. The Person of Jesus Abraham van de Beek

169

16. Imagining Jesus: To Portray or Betray?: Psycho(-patho)logical Aspects of Attempts to Discuss the Historical Individual Peter J. Verhagen

183

CONTENTS

vii

PART 5. INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUES: PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE 17. Introduction to Interdisciplinary Issues: Prospects for the Future Gerrit Glas

207

18. The Hidden Subject of Job: Mirroring and